However, as a beginner you may not have a separate PC or you may not have a Network or servers to begin practicing tools and methods to become professional VAPT expert. There is also a chance that you may corrupt your Laptop or PC while installing and using Kali Linux being a beginner. Thus, you must start your journey with Kali Linux by installing it in a virtual machine. One of the most popular virtualization software is Oracle Virtual Box. You can install Kali Linux and other operating systems on your existing Windows machine as a guest operating system inside virtual box. You can experiment and learn by interacting between these virtual machine to learn VAPT and become a IT Security Expert. Let us check out the easy steps involved in installing Kali Linux as a Guest Machine in Virtual Box on a Windows PC: 1. Open Kali Linux official website in any web browser, navigate to menus and click on Downloads → Download Kali Linux. You will see a table consisting of ISO image files. Click the first installer file to begin download. Now open Oracle Virtual Box official website, navigate to menus and click on Downloads → Windows hosts. Navigate to Download location and run the Virtual Box setup file. Install Virtual Box with default options. First time, virtual box may open on its own, however, you may start it from Start Menu later on. Install Kali Linux in Virtual Box as Guest MachineĪ wizard will open to fill in details for installing Kali virtual machine. In the “Name and operating system” dialog box, provide the name of the Machine e.g. Kali Linux.Ĭheck the default machine folder where all files related to Kali Linux guest machine will be stored.
This is a important folder so you must keep it at a particular location on a separate disk partition (other than operating system) with sufficient disk space as it will occupy a lot of space. For learning purpose we will proceed with default location.Ĭhoose “Type” as “Linux” and “Version” as “Debian”.
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